Word: melvin
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September 15: Ford plays golf with Melvin Laird, former Republican congressman Jack Westland, and his friend Darius "Deke" Keatch, president of Trucker Oil Trade, Inc. He attends church. Later he greets the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts...
...Well, I think it was the right thing to do." Then the President went to the Burning Tree Club to play a round of golf with his old friend Melvin Laird...
...trusted friends: former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, NATO Ambassador Donald Rumsfeld, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton and White House Counsellor John O. Marsh Jr. The four were careful to sound out the views of the Cabinet and a wide circle of Ford's advisers and confidants, including Melvin Laird, the former Congressman and Secretary of Defense; Bryce Harlow, an aide to both Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Nixon; and Michigan's Robert Griffin, G.O.P. whip in the Senate...
...Force One's press section to explain his change of policy and why he had picked such a hostile audience for his announcement. He said that his thinking had been shaped in part by the views of his children and those of former Defense Secretary and Close Friend Melvin Laird, who had unsuccessfully tried to get Nixon to modify his hard-line stance. More over, Ford had concluded that his pledge to bind up the nation's wounds required a new approach. He explained: "You can't talk about healing unless you're going...
...into the decision, and he was anxious to keep his options open in case Rockefeller, for some reason, did not work out. The first faint sign that the President was thinking of Rockefeller was given even before Richard Nixon left the White House. Ford's old House associate Melvin Laird, now a Reader's Digest executive, announced that he supported Rocky for Vice President if Ford took over as President. Though Ford had not asked Laird to float the trial balloon, he did nothing to stop...